[URPE] [NYC] URPE at Brecht, Thurs. June 1: Political Economies of Palestine and Israel

[Ruth Indeck]

NYC Union for Radical Political Economics and the Brecht Forum present:

THE POLITICAL ECONOMIES OF PALESTINE AND ISRAEL:
UNDER-EXPLORED ASPECTS OF THE CONFLICT

Speakers: JEROME JOFFE, KAREN PFEIFER
Moderator: MICHAEL ZWEIG

Thursday, June 1, 7:30pm
at the Brecht Forum
NEW ADDRESS: 451 West St. (West Side Highway between Bank and Bethune)

See website for directions
www.brechtforum.org
212-242-4201

$6/$10/$15 suggested donation

Please choose a flyer for this panel to post at your school, job or 
organization and send to your friends:
http://urpe.org/PalesIsrBW.pdf (print with black ink) or
http://urpe.org/PalesIsrCol.pdf (full color)

For our complete spring program:
http://urpe.org/BrechtSpring06.pdf

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 Last summer Jerry Joffe participated in a fact-finding tour of 
Palestine, sponsored by Faculty For Israeli-Palestinian Peace. He 
traveled extensively throughout the West Bank in search of a deeper 
understanding of how the economy of Palestine works, and of how economic 
circumstances frame the political prospects for peace between Israel and 
Palestine. Jerry will report on what he learned about the many obstacles 
to economic development in Palestine during the years of the Israeli 
occupation.
      Because the economies of Israel and Palestine are so closely 
intertwined, economic policies and circumstances in Israel have a strong 
effect on Palestine, above and beyond whatever is going on politically. 
Karen Pfeifer, who has studied and taught about the economies of many 
countries in the Middle East, will talk about Israel's economy: its 
strengths, its vulnerabilities, and their dialectic.

About the Speakers:

Jerome Joffe teaches at St. John's University, Division of Social 
Science, Program in Health Care Administration. His publications include 
"The U.S. Health Care System, A Reproduction Crisis" in Political 
Economy and Contemporary Capitalism (M.E. Sharpe) and articles on Long 
Term Care (Home Health Care Services Quarterly), Health Care Costs 
(Journal of Economic Issues), Physician Productivity (Public Health 
Reports) and Health Utilization (Inquiry). Jerry recently joined a tour 
of Palestine sponsored by Faculty For Israeli-Palestinian Peace and has 
written a report which is on their website.

Karen Pfeifer is a Professor of Economics at Smith College and has 
taught there since 1979. She has served as an editor of Research in 
Middle East Economics and of Middle East Report. Pfeifer's main teaching 
fields are alternative economic theory and comparative economic systems, 
with research focused on economic development and social change in the 
Middle East and North Africa. She has done research in Algeria, Egypt, 
Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Turkey, and the Palestinian Territories. Her 
most recent scholarly projects concern rebuilding devastated economies 
in the Middle East and the Euro-Med Partnership Initiative.

Michael Zweig (moderator) is a Professor of Economics at SUNY Stony 
Brook and Director of the Center for Study of Working Class Life, 
located at Stony Brook. Recent books include "The Working Class 
Majority" and "What's Class Got to Do with It?"

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